Results from changing my tranny oil to SWEPCO 201, Comments on transmission oil. |
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Results from changing my tranny oil to SWEPCO 201, Comments on transmission oil. |
steuspeed |
Dec 18 2011, 07:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,008 Joined: 12-July 11 From: Portland, Oregon Member No.: 13,308 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
So I have had my car about 6 months now. It has 105k on the clock. No record of when the last time the transmission oil was changed. First and second gear syncros are toast, but if I am real careful I can get it to slip in without grinding. Got to put it in first just before you come to a stop. I just changed the oil (Brad Penn) and thought it would be a good time to try some SWEPCO 201 in the transmission. The oil that drained out looked pretty good. Still had an amber color to it but a little on the low side. So now with the SWEPCO 3rd has a real notchy feel to it. second will zip on the teeth as I come down from third with my usual methods. First is even more finicky than before. Outside Temp is 35-45 degree range right now. Will this get better over time? Seems like I went backwards. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Any comments welcome.
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J P Stein |
Dec 22 2011, 11:04 AM
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Irrelevant old fart Group: Members Posts: 8,797 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Vancouver, WA Member No.: 45 Region Association: None |
Many moons ago I went thru many T-10s, Muncies, & Saginaws ( a real POS) so I was familiar with BW syncros. The first time I got into a Porsche trans (901) , I sez to myself "WTF is this lash up". When I figured out how the syncros worked I sez "this is not a better idea" and I understood why the "balkyness" of the shifting and the requirement that the "pause" between the shifts was necessary. Couple that with the Rube Goldberg shift linkage and careful treatment is necessary. In 1988 Porsche started using the BW syncros.....that took em' long enuff to figure out....the NIH syndrome. In my 40 odd years of experience with manual shifting cars, the only time I gave any thought to trans oil was with the 901/915 and their effed up syncros.
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